CIL, SCCL unions defer strike by three months

ET Bureau|

Jun 19, 2017, 12.26 AM IST

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The strike was deferred after Sunday's meeting with the Chief Labour Commissioner in Kolkata.

KOLKATA: Unions of Coal India and Singareni Collieries have deferred their three-day strike by three months. The strike was to be observed from Monday on concerns that the government would merge coal workers' provident fund with the Employees Provident Fund, which they feared would reduce retirement benefits.

However the government had clarified earlier that there was no such proposal. Unions also demanded early salary negotiations and proper implementations of decisions taken in the previous round of negotiations.

The strike was deferred after Sunday's meeting with the Chief Labour Commissioner in Kolkata.

"Following today's meeting where it was clarified that demands of workers' salary would be resolved within two months, we have decided to defer the strike," said S Q Zama, secretary general of the Rashtriya Koyla Khadan Mazdoor Sangh, which is affiliated to INTUC.

It was also decided that employees and the Coal India management will make equal contribution to the fund to help the fund meet its liability shortfall.

Surender Kumar Pandey, who is national secretary of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, said the government’s clarification on pension funds also helped defer the strike.

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